also tonight, cnn has learned that former president trump s lawyers are now in direct talks with the u.s. justice department about the january 6th criminal investigation. stand by for our exclusive new reporting as sources now reveal that trump s attorneys have warned him that indictments, criminal indictments are possible and wnba star brittney griner is sentenced to nine years in prison after being convicted by a russian court on drug charges. the u.s. is now reviewing for moscow to accept a proposed prisoner swap aimed at bringing griner home. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking news right now. a texas jury awarding more than $4 million to the parents of the sandy hook shooting victim suing alex jones over defamation and distress over his repeated lies about the tragedy. cnn correspondent drew griffin is working the stor
Of senate republicans to re-visit medicare or social security, period. martha: senate eric scott joins us now to respond. good to have you with us, senator scott. so do you think that that is realistic? do you agree with that? first off, it s nice to get attacked by the washington establishment because it tells everybody that i represent floridians. so i put out a plan. you go to rescueamerica.com. it says congress ought to tell you how they re going to preserve medicare and social security that are going bankrupt. if i said we ought to review programs, somehow that s a cut. if we what do we do on defense? there s no 40-year plan for defense. there s no 100-year plan for defense. every year we go through the defense budget. if you don t support a 100-year defense plan, you must be cutting defense every year. it s disingenuous. i don t believe we should reduce the benefits, but guess what?
Ideas. this was he was confusing. he put up no ideas of what he s going to get done. go to rescueamerica.com. i m clear what i want to do. i want to get people back to work. let s look at the contrast. when i was governor, we added 1.7 million jobs. we balanced the budget. we cut taxes and fees 100 times. all right? i didn t raise anybody s taxes. joe biden is he s voted for every tax increase i can imagine. he s taken the deficit think about it, when he took office, we had less than a trillion dollars worth of debt. when he took office in the senate, the idea that he s reducing deficit is a complete lie. he s reduced the amount of deficit per year but his plan is to take the deficit up every year in 10 years, we ll have $45 trillion worth of debt. harris: how interesting. think about medicare. here s a guy, bernie sanders even talked about it on the campaign trail. he said, you know, joe biden is